vikings. another presidential debate coming up this week. i'm doug luzader. we will have more on what they are doing to prepare. >> first, when a victory turns violent. o years after a maryland basketball game got out of hand, they head to court. fox 5 morning news at 7:00 starts right now. >> there is a live look at the washington monument as we zoom in. not a bad start to the day as far as temperatures go. we will find out what we have on tap for today's weather in a moment. good morning, i'm tony perkins. >> i'm allison seymour. tucker, it didn't feel bad when i was running to the car. a warm breeze. not bad at all. mid-60s. nice mild start to the day. that is on the heels of a beautiful day yesterday with highs in the mid-70s. not as nice today as we have

more clouds and increasing possibility of scattered showers. there is a live look at radar. not much in the way of shower activity. we have a cold front approaching from the west. we will have the possibility of showers around here. best chance late morning into the afternoon hours. and the possibility that there could be a thunderstorm out there, particularly south and east of the city this afternoon. there are your mild temperatures. 67 in washington at reagan national. 66 at dulles and bwi marshall. forecast highs for today back in the low 7 every 70s -- 70s. it should be on the mild side. we will take a look at the seven day in a couple of minutes. let's get the latest in traffic from julie wright. good morning, tucker. on the orange and blue line delays to the new carrollton stop and largo town center due to a disabled train. traffic is moving but slowing. traveling around the capital

beltway, lanes open on i-95. burk lake road and lake chapel cleaning up this wreck. accident activity nursery at 295. crash southbound 95 of 695, accident is on the shoulder causing a backup. meanwhile closer to home, southbound 270, no incidents at hyattstown. checking for a stalled car at 28 in the local lanes. if you are east on 66th heavy volume from fair oaks to 123 and approaching the capital beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. we begin with two developing stories. the first in prince william county where the personal belongings of dozens of people are destroyed. about 80 storage unites burned overnight in manassas.

the fire burned for at least three hours. investigators don't know the cause of the blaze. no one was hurt. meanwhile, the search continues for two local hikers missing in montana. jason heiser and neal peckens disappeared friday during a visit to glacier national park of the they were record missing after failing to catch a flight home. at least 50 people joined the search team but heavy snow and thick clouds made aerial and ground searches difficult. the trial begins for two police officers accused of beating a university of maryland student in 2010. it was all caught on tape from a dorm window. >> the student was celebrating with other rowdy students outside after the school beat duke in a basketball game. karen gray houston is live with the latest. good morning, karen. >> reporter: good morning, tony. good morning, allison. the two prince george's county police officers are james harrison and reginald baker.

they are accused of using excessive force in assaulting student jack mckenna during a victory celebration after a basketball game. that beating was captured on videotape. a student recorded the assault from a dorm room window. it shows officers in riot gear striking mckenna with metal batons. he was walking on a sidewalk, hit repeatedly when he approached officers on horseback. this all happened after a spontaneous celebration that followed the terps victory over rival duke in march 2010. students swarmed in the street on route 1. police say they were unruly and out of control burning trash cans, tearing down signs, throwing projectiles at officers. more than 30 people were arrested for disorderly conduct, most of them students including mckenna. his lawyers say he suffered a

concussion and contusion. now initially mckenna was charged with assault on a police officer. all of the charges against him were dropped when the videotape surfaced. tony and allison, back into you. >> all right. thank you very much. also in court today, five men charged in connection with the 911 terror attacks including khalid sheikh mohammed. the pretrial sessions will be held at guantanamo bay and closed to the public. families of 9-11 victims and first responders can watch from military facilities in maryland, new york, new jersey and massachusetts. the five suspects will be on hand for the hearings. the actual tribunal will begin sometime next year. round two of the presidential debates coming up fast. president obama and mitt romney. >> reporter: this shows you what is at stake in the second debate. this is real clear politics

average of polls since the ends of last year. you see a clear obama lead through most of that time. the big momentum shift happens right there after the first presidential debate about two weeks ago. we won't be hearing much from the they are of these guys today, both deep in debate preps. we did catch a glimpse of mitt romney yesterday heading to church. president obama has been holed up in this luxury resort in virginia as his campaign predicted a much stronger performance than the last time around. >> you will see from the president a forceful passionate, energetic tone that demonstrates the choice that we have in front of us. >> reporter: remember, the president who last time openly complained about debate preps and spent time sightseeing. >> it's a drag. they are making me do my homework. >> now he appears more engaged and upbeat pausing to bring pizza to a local campaign

office. >> reporter: the format of this debate at hofstra university in debate will be town hall style with questions from uncome -- from uncommitted voters. the romney campaign is bracing for a more aggressive president. >> i think the wind is at governor romney's back. there is clearly momentum. you can see it on the trail. the country is enly divided. >> reporter: the overall tone may be different than the first presidential debate where they stood at podiums squaring off at each other. the debate will be a town hall format which means both of these guys have to connect directly with the voters there in front of them asking questions. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. >> one other election note. today is the deadline for people living in virginia to register by mail to vote in time for the november ballot. election officials say to make sure you check your status online and double check your

polling place. in fairfax county alone, as many as 200,000 people may be excluded from voting because of polling place errors or registration difficulties. democrats are shrugging off continued accusations by republicans that the white house deliberately covered up details of the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. republican senator lindsay graham says he thinks the administration is trying to keep voters from questioning the president's handling of the war on terror and he says the white house knew the attack was a coordinated assault but he wants people to think the president dismantled al-qaeda. the pakistani school girl shot in the head by the taliban is on her way to a british hospital. she was targeted because she called for girls to be educated. she was seriously wounded when an assassination team shot her on her way to school last tuesday. she is still unconscious this morning but doctors are optimistic about her recovery.

the tributes for pennsylvania's long time senator arlen specterave been pouring in since he passed away yesterday. he was a survivor of decades of political fights on capitol hill. but he lost his battle against hodgkin's lymphoma. president obama is remembering him as a fiercely independent fighter from his days stomping out as a prosecutor in pennsylvania. he said laura and i appreciate his con try biogs to america and are grateful for his many years of public service. he was 82 years old. protection from cervical cancer or encouraging promise skew it at the among young girls the side effects of the hpv vaccine. >> plus, proving the critics wrong. robert griffin the third puts

up big numbers for the offense. >> first, the right stuff. a supersonic sky diver steps from a balloon into the history books. and e first man to break the sound barrier marked the occasion 65 years later. he did it. did it. [ fefemale announcer ] as youe making your decision...

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making headlines, the incredible space dive by an extreme athlete from austria. felix baumgardner jumped from 24 miles above the earth in an astronaut-like suit and landed safely in new mexico. the descent lasted over nine minutes. half was in free-fall at a top

speed of 833 miles per hour. i can't imagine what that would be like. he broke several records including highest free-fall, fastest free-fall and highest manned balloon flight. >> this is amazing. the first person ever to break the sound barrier, chuck yeager celebrated it by doing it again. he is 89 years old, i believe. that came on the 65th anniversary of his flight. he sat in the back seat of an f 15 eagle aggressor above the mojave desert. >> fantastic. >> i'm looking at him. born in 1923. >> love it. these pictures are fantastic. this is "endeavour." it launched off the space pad and many miles in space.

but the final on the streets of los angeles may have been the hardest. several trees had to be cut down on an emergency basis to get the spacecraft through. unfortunately the spacecraft did receive 17 slow driving tickets. >> and a bunch of graffiti. >> that is nothing for l.a. traffic. >> it's moving right along. >> it seems like during this time, our economic downturn, we don't get do celebrate like that. >> cool to come out and watch it. >> going on the city streets, bizarre. >> i like it. >> tucker, what do you have for us. >> gorgeous. yesterday temperatures in the 70s. possibility of showers later today. later this morning to be honest

with you. brimming an umbrella -- bring an umbrella. quick spin around the country. here is the cold air up to the north and west. 47 international falls. and we will not be talking 20s here but we will fall back to the upper 40s and 50s later tonight as the comb air works in. a couple of spotty showers. a shower developing just east of anne arundel county across the bay then one to the north and east of frederick. not a lot of shower activity at the moment. and honestly the showers will be wildly scattered. the cold front is not terribly organized. you can see it. but some of the showers will be enhanced as they move on through later today. there could be thunderstorms, particularly south and east of the city later today. hear a rumble of thunder, don't be surprised. there is the acquisition seven day. scattered showers in the forecast. tuesday, wednesday, thursday, lots of sunshine, low humidity. great time of year.

>> thank you, sir. >> thanks, tuck. let's find out what is happening on the roads. we have julie wright. >> thinks are busy. heavy volume around the area. 66 not only slowing out of manassas but past fair oaks to 123 and again heading eastbound to the capital beltway. 395 below speed from beltway to king street. burk lake road an accident. southbound along 270, heavy, slow and almost stopped in germantown. we have reports of a stalled car in the local lanes south of 28. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. remember friday when we were doing this stuff? it didn't work. >> it's over. washington sports fans have something to smile again.

we are talking football, not baseball. >> robert griffin the third and the redskins finally snapped the eight-game win drought visiting the vikings. dave ross is back with the highlights. >> yes, highlights. amazing that they haven't won since last september f. there was ever a -- if there was ever a weekend we said, after friday night, we need something good to talk about after monday morning, rg3 never disappoints. got off to a slow start. he gets picked off here and the vikings had three straight field goals. the defense held them in there when the offense wasn't playing well. it was 9-0. you thought maybe rg3 isn't being rg3. wait a second, here he comes. 17 straight points for the home team. then they just really exploded. rg3 when they are in the red zone he is the number one

shown. you can talk about the heights and all that stuff. he is so dynamic with his legs, this is what separates him and makes him great. already six games into his pro career. then the vikings would rally and they are down five. third down and then this happened. >> unbelievable. >> there he goes. i love those little smacks, everyone of them and then the leap into the crowd. that was the dagger for the vikings. they win 38-26 and you look up today and you got to be happy to think that hopefully barring any catastrophe this is at least a decade of watching this kid. >> he lingered up is there for a second. >> he has to come out of there. >> you have a couple more minutes to play. great win yesterday and i think better when you saw what happened to the cowboys, our neighbors to the north against the ravens and all of a sudden the redskins fans are going, we

have a chance -- we are 3-3. the cowboys after jacoby does this, 108 yards to the house, an nfl record then the deion sanders-like dance here. do you like that one, allison. >> i like that. >> the cowboys did mount a come back and tony romo with dez bryant with 34 seconds to go. they missed the two point conversion but in a bizarre fashion they get the on side kick so they have a chance to steal a win in baltimore then it comes down to the kicker. redskins fans know about kickers. dan bailey, 51 yards out. >> look at that. >> wide left. cowboys lose. ravens are 5-1 and you think about this now, dallas is in last place. redskins are 3-3. eagles lost at home in overtime. they are 3-3. giants 34-2. redskins go to new york on

sunday. if -- if it happens, they could be tied for first after seven weeks. >> that's a big if. >> we were going to talk about the nats. we will get allison's thoughts. >> we don't want to talk about them. >> we will keep it up lifting today. >> if the redskins -- oh, we are -- sorry. >> i thought we only had ten seconds. >> well, real quickly, allison, we have been in this town for many, many moons. how do we, as a city, do we put all our stock in rg3 and forget this. >> no, as i said to tony, we are nl east champions. wonderful run. we got there for the first time in how many years. celebrate that and look forward. >> i'm with you on that. let's get off on a good foot next year. 162 games. >> move past the bitter disappointment. >> move past it. we are moving past it. >> okay. i don't know what to say.

>> we don't have any time anyway. >> it's 67 degrees. coming up in health news, an update on the tread of a deadly -- spread of a deadly fungal infection. [ female announcer ] as you're making your decision...

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welcome back. a nationwide meningitis outbreak is still spreading. 205 people have become infected and 15 died. 14 states are reporting cases. the latest is in new hampshire. the outbreak has been linked toe steroid shots used for back pain made by a specialty pharmacy in massachusetts. a new study may bring peace of mind to millions of worried

parents. researchers say the shot that prevents young girls from cervical cancer does not make them more promiscuous. the researchers didn't rely on direct questions. instead, they examined records on whether the girls sought birth control devices or tested for sexually transmitted diseases. very few of the girls that received the vaccine at 11 or 12 had done any of those over the next three years. the study is the first to compare medical records for vaccinated and unvaccinated young women. the libyan consulate attack that claimed the life of a u.s. ambassador and other americans is part of the presidential race. how much could it impact the obama campaign. j.j. green joins us coming up. >> first, the road to the fall classic. the card flails picked up to where they -- cardinals picked up to where they left off against our nats. >> and we will check in with tucker and julie for what is happing up to be a possibly wet

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welcome back. the cardinals bats show no signs of slowing down. >> i don't care. >> you have to read it. >> in game one of the national lead series, two homeowners helped st. louis beat the giants. game two underway tonight. you can see it on fox 5 with coverage at 7:30. i want to talk about the american league. >> sure. >> in the american league, a blown call on the base path and helped detroit take game two of the series with new york. final score 3-zip. yankees are playing without derek jeter who broke his ankle. game 2 gets underway tuesday. that tomorrow? >> i still care about the baseball games. i want to see the teams that knocked out the nationals and orioles. >> you want to see them get

knocked out. i'm with you on that. i want to take a moment on behalf of tucker and i. we were out together saturday night at a fine entertainment establishment in washington area and we met a lot of our viewers, super nice. they love you and thank you so much for your niceness. >> you don't want to say where it was. >> should we? >> probably not in this case. >> nothing bad. >> you are making it seem like it, i got to be honest. >> maryland live. we are supporting the local economy in a big way. >> some of us supporting more than others. >> you guys never invite me to go places like that. >> it's a guys night. >> we had fun. >> i was never there before. waits a good time -- it was a good time. >> tony is right, everybody was really nice. 67 in washington. 64 in leonard town. nice mild start to your day.

we had clouds move in and mild temperatures around here yesterday but we have changes to talk about. we have a cold front with showers and lots of clouds today. radar, not much in the way of shower activity at the moment. we have a few showers pushing east of annapolis. a few showers earlier up to the north. right now we are generally quiet. i'm not sure we will remain so during the day. our cold front just off to the west, that will continue to press into the area later this morning and early this afternoon. i think some of that rain in southwest virginia will get picked up and pull to the washington area. bring an umbrella. we will have scattered showers in the forecast. later this afternoon, south and east of the city, it's possible you could get a thunderstorm, maybe a rumble of thunder. if you hear thunder, don't be surprised. the front gets east of us later tonight and we are back in the sunshine. slightly cooler air tomorrow. it's still hurricane season. this is tropical storm rafael. heavy rain over the weekend in

the u.s. virgin islands. it's lifting off to the north and east. should be east of bermuda. they have to track it carefully and likely become a hurricane. maximum winds 70 miles per hour. hurricane season continues until the end of november. 72 today. mostly cloudy skies. scattered showers and storms. bring an umbrella. there is the acquisition seven day. cooler tonight. cooler and drier air works in. 53. tuesday, wednesday and thursday gorgeous, upper 60s to 70 degrees. let's get traffic and the latest from the pumpkin patch and julie wright. >> what is with you and the pumpkin patch. >> i love the pictures of you hanging out in the pumpkin patch this weekend. >> it's that time of year tucker. not all of us go to d.c. live or maryland live, whatever. wherever you boys hang out. [ laughter ] all right, here is what i know, northbound i-95, all lanes are blocked because of an overturned plumbing truck main

line of northbound i-95. no one is getting by. fire rescue is on the scene. delays are building quickly out of dale city northbound on i- 95. there is the truck overturned on its side. no one is getting by on this main line of northbound i-95. lanes are open continuing on the other side of town and working your way along northbound 29. that's where we had accident activity before you reach 175. no one able to get by there. on the outer loop colesville we had a car fire blocking two right lanes. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. 70 members of the d.c. national guard returned home this weekend. they were stationed in afghanistan where they provided security logistics near kabul. soldiers were welcomed with cheers, clapping and relief that they were finally home on american soil. they were most looking time to st joked that coming home to

burgers and french fries was the best part. just a joke. >> good to have them home. in the crisis over syria in the middle east, turkey forced a plane from armenia to land inside turkey and is now searching that plane for possible military equipment. tensions between syria and turkey are growing with -- after both countries banned all flights from the other's country. rebels in syria say they shot down a government fighter plane. they showed video showing the army burning a mosque. if you have separate phone or cell phone, they are being bought in a merger announced in japan. soft bang core is buying sprint for $ billion/?txu. it will need the green light from sprint shareholders and regulators. still ahead in this hour, the financial fallout from susan g. komen. the biggest breast cancer

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welcome back. when president obama and mitt romney meet for the second debate tomorrow night, the topic of the libyan consulate attack will be brought up, especially considering vice president's joe biden denial that they didn't know the a request for more security. j.j. green joins us with a closer look at all of this. >> good morning. >> if part of the mission has been to confuse we the people about what happened in libya, who knew what when. >> mission accomplished. >> i have to say and i read about it every day, i'm confused. i know they asked for extra security. i am confused as to how far the

request got, who might have denied it, what did the white house know when and all of that. what do we know, what do you know. >> first and foremost, let's look at the reality of what happened. diplomatic security did a human job of trying to protect americans in libya from the day the uprisings began that lead to the killing and the eventual ouster of gadhafi. they knew it would be a stiff challenge for them to face and they rose to it. in the process of doing that, they said, hey, we need money to do this and we need extra security to do this. that is something that they felt and many others felt needed to be dealt with. there were requests that went all the way up the chain, i am told, but were denied. now, how far is all the way? whether the president, vice president knew about it, i

don't know. did the national security council know about it? did they have anything to do with it? who talks about it and makes the decision? this is something that we have yet to find out b. i know the united nations ambassador susan rice did not believe this was a terrorist attack early on. i did hear the secretary of state say we had to figure out what was going on first before we could make any decisions on what to do about it. i do know that folks in the intelligence and law enforcement community were talking months before. several reports came up. the last in august saying this is a problem. we know al-qaeda is out here. we know what they are trying to do. they are gathering weapons and people and they knew that they could not find annis who was the man in libya dating back to the days before 9-11. so they knew something was brewing. what they did about it will be interesting in the end.

>> did al-qaeda very smartly -- for them, use what was going on with the unrest and everything and the reaction to that film and all that kind of thing, did they use that as an opportunity to mask their mission and go in. >> absolutely. that's what al-qaeda does. they look for opportunities and certainly now considering the weakness of the organization having lost many of its top operators over the last five to six years, they look for opportunities in places where they can skillfully blend in. one of the things, a report from the congressional research service, and it used -- it was done in part in conjunction with the irregular warfare unit at the pentagon, al-qaeda knew that this power vacuum after gay dave identified would present all sorts of opportunities, weapons, situations where they could do what they wanted to do and do it in a way in which time --

patience is their thing. do it in a way in which they could take their time and pick their spots and they did. >> hindsight is 20/20. are you surprised given the crime mate in libya in particular that a request for extra security would be denied on any grounds, financial, whatever it is? >> i have to say covering national security in washington, very little surprises me any more. the thing about it is before blaming people, before assigning responsibility for things that have taken place, there is really a lot of digging you have to do. some of that digging takes a long time to do. and at the end of the day, talking to the security folks and the law enforcement folks and intelligence folks, i know there is anger out there. there are the political folks on the other side which i don't deal with as you know, that have what they have to say. but they always fight, they

always clash. supposedly it's a helpful dialogue to get where they want to be. but i think this is a situation where it wasn't helpful for anyone. someone should have figured out and realized we don't have time to do this. this is a situation that is unique. i think a lot of folks on both sides knew that. some key individuals were the hold ups. >> we are out of time. i wish we had more time to talk about this and we have to get you back here here to talk about what is going on between syria and turkey. we would like to do that, too. j.j. green, thanks. good to see you. >> allison and tucker back to you. >> no shortage of topics for j.j. to come in and talk about these days. tucker barnes, not a bad start to the day as far as i can see. >> we have rain and showers. but sunday was beautiful and saturday too. a little on the cool side. there is the shower activity. wildly scattered. not going to rain all day today but the cloud cover will hold off.

we will have the possibility of scattered showers returning later today as this cold front presses in from the west. we have slightly cooler and drier air on the way later tonight. let's do futurecast and put in motion for you, see what we can find, a couple of showers out there early. watch what happens later this morning, showers later this morning, early this afternoon. you can see much of the area is not getting much of anything. there might be a period of light rain shower activity late morning, early afternoon. then later this afternoon, particularly in southern maryland and lower eastern shore, you have the chance of thunderstorm activity. there we are at 7:00 tonight. futurecast is presenting the possibility of scattered thunderstorms south and east later today. overnight tonight we will clear out and tuesday great with sunshine, low humidity. temperatures back in the mid- to upper-60s. 72 today. cooler tonight, 53 the overnight low. tuesday, wednesday, thursday look fantastic. highs close to 70 by the middle

of the week. >> nice. thank you, tubing. >> tuck. >> let's go to julie wright. if you are traveling on northbound i-95 in virginia, the remains of this plumbing truck which overturned is tying up the roadway. this is northbound i-95, fire and rescue is on the scene. backing up the tow truck as we speak. there is a change. updated view allows traffic to squeeze by. the left lane and left shoulder are squeezing by northbound on i-95. heavy volume northbound out of dale city trying to work your way around the scene, northbound on i-95. traffic slows 0 on 395. i have accident activity here. this is westbound on shady grove road. this is coming from the airport, full, heading to -- if you will, heading to 270 tying up the two right lanes. i have delays on the outer loop

of the beltway from 95 college park trying to get past colesville. and finally northbound on 29 before 175 accident activity tying up the left side of the road. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. mixed results for the susan g. komen walk. it raised $3.8 million but that is about half of what the event hauled in last year. now, the number of people taking part in the charity event dropped substantially from 2500 in 2011 last year to 1600 this year. most people blame the drop off in the organizations controversial decision earlier this year to stop funding breast cancer screenings at planned parenthood. the group later reversed the decision. >> wow. coming up next, spending the halloween holidays sure rounded by animals of all kind. >> holly morris has a look inside the boo barn. good morning.

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well, when it comes to protecting your access to birth control... and the basic women's health care services planned parenthood provides... one thing we must remember, is this: i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. [ female announcer ] he'll cut it off. cut us off. planned parenthood. we're going to get rid of that. [ female announcer ] women need to know the real mitt romney. [ obama ] i'm barack obama and i approve this message. under the president's policies, middle income americans have been buried. they're just being crushed. middle-income americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. this is a tax in and of itself. i'll call it the economy tax. i'm not going to raise taxes on anyone.

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>> thanks for watching. some of d.c.'s favorite residents are getting ready for a special event. >> it's the boo at the zoo. costumed guests are invited to join the animals for the fun. holly morris has a preview. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is the 14th year that they had boo at the zoo. it's put on each year by friends of the national zoo. it's hilly raped and this -- highly anticipated and this year is no exception. mark, i remember when this event was one day. now we are talking three days of boo at the zoo. that is a testament of how popular it is. >> this is the best kept -- maybe not the best kept secret around hollywood, washington, d.c. it's in its 15th year. it's three days of incredible

treats and tricks and great things to do for families with kids ages 2 to 12. it has gotten better every year. we think this will be the best year ever. >> you would think if you go the boo barn you would see animals but this is the treasure trove of halloween decorations. really you transform the zoo. >> it is. there are lights, spooky decorations, incredible things that the children and their families will get to do and experience at the zoo that they normally don't. the reptile discovery center will have for the first time ever a haunted salamander exhibit in costume and will answer every question you have about salamanders. >> i have a lot of questions about salamanders. i have been storing them up. that's good to know. most of these are the indoor venues at the zoo and you have

special programming and you do have, i think i heard, 30 treat stations. >> there are more than 30 treat stations. there are all kinds of really wonderful things for the kids. we had great support from our sponsors, traditional halloween treats, morris candy and more healthy snacks that i'm sure the parents will be happy for from whole foods markets. >> i think i heard all the kids say boo but it didn't have anything to do with boo at the zoo. >> these are healthy treats they will like. >> i see how it works. how should families navigate this. it's a lot to see in a limited time. >> it runs from 5:30 to 8:30, 26th to the 28th. you can come in any of the parking hears. but because we normally sell out parking, we are running a shuttle from the woodley park metro. if you have a ticket, it's a

free shuttle. tickets are $30 a person. if you are a member you get a $10 discount and $5 discount off parking. >> what do people get when they are members of fonz. it's more than just reduced ticket prices. >> you do but here is the important thing. you became part of the zoo family. you support the incredible work that the zoo does in terms of the science, conservation, education and you become a member of the zoo which is an incredible place to spend time with your family. it's a great outdoor activity. great in the summer, great in the winter. we have boo at the zoo then we go into zoo lights for the holiday season. >> i want to make sure that we fame size because it's kids 2- 12. those are the ones that can come in costume. >> children under 2 are welcome to come with their families as well. no cost to them. we do want the whole family to come. it's a fantastic opportunity.

it's safe, it's fun, you get to see all kinds of animals. we got exhibits open in the reptile house, small mammals, invertebrates. >> i didn't mean to interrupt you but i want to get this in. the zoo is usually free, why does this event cost. the money goes toward what fonz is all about. >> which is supporting the zoo and ensuring that the zoo can provide the absolute best experience for our visitors which we have about 2 million a year. so, it's really a partnership between the smithsonian zoological park and the friends of the national zoo. all the funds we raise go to making the zoo a better experience for everybody. >> this has been a wonderful wedding that we attended. i can't wait to see what the reception involves. >> myfoxdc.com is the web site. three days october 26, 27 and 28. parking sold out for saturday

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straight ahead at 8:00, 8 is enough. robert griffin the third ends the loss streak. >> a cram for the presidential debate. how the two candidates are prepping for the match-up. >> later, lucky to be alive.

how a base jumper managed to survive a 4,000-foot plunge down the side of a cliff. >> why would you do something like that. >> that doesn't look like a good idea. >> you are off camera, tucker. >> i'm tony perkins. >> i'm allison seymour. >> now you are on camera. what did you say. >> didn't look like a good idea. we have clouds that moved in overnight. showers, scattered showers in the forecast. it's not going to rain all day but notably bloomy than saturday and sunday. tomorrow back in the sunshine. there is the radar. shower activity is not very impressive. i will track east later today. showers more enhanced through the morning hours into the

midafternoon. could be a thunderstorm, too. best chance south and east of the city. all right. temperatures are nice and mild. you will feel that when you step out. 68 reagan national. 65 dulles. forecast today, lots of clouds around. you may see a few peeks of sunshine with a few showers later this afternoon. the possibility of a thunderstorm. high temperatures in the low 70s. more details on the weather in a couple of minutes. >> thank you, sir. >> thanks, tuck. all right. we are still keeping an eye on what is happening in virginia on northbound i-95. this is where we have the truck accident that flipped over, a plumbing truck that had the roadway blocked. traffic is able to squeeze by using the two left lanes only. northbound delays stacking up out of dale city up to the scene. further north on 95, 395, accident activity squeezes the right side of the highway for those continuing northbound on 3 5. outer loop of the beltway

the car fire before georgia avenue is tying it up and the wreck before 175, that has cleared to the shoulder. rains are open once again. delays out of laurel on the bwi parkway. delays out of buoy and leaving -- bowie and leaving riverdale. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. >> julie, thank you. we needed this. d.c. sports fans needed the win after friday nationals collapse. >> robert griffin the third didn't show any effects from his concussion. he ran for 138 yards and two touchdowns. the highlight was this 76-yard run down the sidelines that gave the skins a 12 point lead in the fourth quarter. the longest scoring run by an nfl quarterback in 16 years.

the redskins won and are 3-3 for the season. dave ross joins us at 8:30 to break it down and look at big losses around the nfc east. well, we are three weeks away from election day and one day from the second debate between president obama and governor mitt romney. they kept a low profile over the weekend. president obama was in williamsburg, virginia and isn't holding campaign events today. the president did take a break yesterday to deliver pizza to his virginia campaign staff. the president spent a few minutes shaking hands, taking calls trying to fire up the base. his republican challenger spent his sunday at church and doing debate prep of his own. governor romney campaigns in wisconsin then off to cincinnati for a rally at noon. one other election note, today is the deadline for people living in virginia to register to vote in time for the november ballot. election officials say to check

your status online, double check your polling place. in fairfax county alone, officials say as many as 200,000 people may be excluded from voting because of polling place errors or registration difficulties. the search continues today for two local hikers missing in montana. jason heiser of maryland and neal peckens disappeared. they were reporting missing after failing to catch a flight home. 50 people have joined the search team but heavy snow and thick clouds made aerial and ground searches difficult. the trial begins today for two police officers accused of beating a university of maryland student during a rowdy celebration in 2010. the beating was caught on tape shot from a dorm window. fox 5's karen gray houston is live at police headquarters

with more. >> reporter: good morning, tony. the two officers who are going on trial today have had long and exemplary careers if you ask the fraternal order of police, they issued a statement saying that you should not rush to judgment in this case. prosecutors are accusing those two officers of using excessive force and are going to use a videotape to help them press their case. they say this video shows prince george's county police officers, reginald baker and james harrison, assaulting student jack mckenna. the video was recorded by a student and shows three officers in riot gear, two using batons in the assault. baker and harrison are charged with first and second-degree assault as well as misconduct in office. the videotaped incident occurred march 3, 2010, the night the university of maryland basketball team scored

a big win over rival duke. a victory celebration turned chaotic. police arrested 33 people and charged them with disorderly conduct after trash cans were burned. police say the crowd refused to obey orders to disburse. mckenna was among those arrested. his lawyers say his injuries included contusions and a concussion. according to police, four of those arrested had minor injuries. they say one officer was hurt when somebody punched him in the face. now, mckenna no longer faces charges in connection with this. prosecutors dropped those charges against him after the videotape surfaced. live at prince george's county police headquarters, karen gray houston, fox 5 news. tony, back to you. >> karen, thank you very much. also in court, five men charged in connection with the 9-11 terror attacks including

alleged mastermind khalid sheikh mohammed. the hearings will be held at guantanamo bay and closed to the public. families of the victims and first responders can watch from military facilities in maryland, new york, new jersey and massachusetts. the five suspects will be on hand for the hearings. the actual tribunal will begin next year. the political world is remembering long time republican senator arlen specter that passed away yesterday. specter was very influential for both sides of the aisle, particularly in confirming supreme court nominees. he died at 82 at his home in philadelphia after a battle with nonhodgkin's lymphoma. still ahead, an amazing leap from the edge of space. a look at a supersonic sky dive. >> can you afford to retire?

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welcome back. making headlines in the day ahead, the continued back and forth over controversial metro station ads. the council on islamic relations will discuss details of its campaign in response to the antijihad posters put up last week. they plan to reveal ads signed by 24 faith-based groups that will be put up in metro stations as well. the group will release a letter signed by local clergy members promoting religious understanding. a ribbon cut for the noaa facility. the center for weather and climate prediction is in college park. scientists will work to improve

immediate and long range forecasting. game two of the national league championship series gets underway. the cardinals lead 1-0 after beating the giants 6-4. you can see the game on fox 5. coverage begins at 7:30. exciting weather news for fans. >> it will. the work they are doing out there will be extraordinary. tucker is thrilled. >> he must be. >> everybody should be. you should be interested in the global climate. >> sure. >> some of the best minds about that kind of thing will be assembled there. >> all in one place. >> tucker, too. >> time for my first five photo of the day. >> i guess not. >> today we say -- i haven't been invited but i want to visit. hopefully in the next couple of weeks. today we say hello to 2-year- old caleb, everybody. >> mr. handsome. >> great pictures. >> yes, it is. >> this is a picture from caleb's recent trip to the

orchard in germantown. >> i think julie wright mentioned she was out there this weekend. i'm surprised there are any pumpkins left. >> look in the background. there aren't many left. >> julie cleaned the place out. >> adorable. >> great picture. to send us a child's picture go to myfoxdc.com and send us a picture. we have cooler weather off to the north and west. 50 in detroit. the cooler air is heading in our direction behind a cold front which will be moving through a little later this afternoon. right now a lot of clouds across the area. one or two sprinkles north and west of the city. i think we will see more numerous showers later but they will be scattered, if that makes sense. it won't rain all day. we will have scattered showers around as the system approaches from the west. there you can see most of the shower activity is to the south. if you are south of the city, south and east of the city, you

have a chance of thunderstorms as well. so, southern maryland, lower eastern shore, if you see rumbles of thunder, don't be surprised. behind the front, cooler air on the way that sets us up for beautiful middle of the week. there is the acquisition seven day. cooler to need -- accuweather seven day tuesday, wednesday and thursday beautiful. maybe a few showers friday. that's weather. let's do traffic and talk to the great pumpkin herself, julie wright. >> i got a wheelbarrow ride, too. >> did you? >> yeah. it's a lot of fun. if you take the kids, they have face painting, rides, chickies, piggies, bunnies and goats. you can play with them all. and there was a corn maze and i found my way out. northbound i-95 out of dale city, the cleanup continues from the accident involving an

overturned plumbing thrum. the truck is out of the way but they are cleaning up debris. be patient northbound out of dale city. southbound 270 still heavy, slow and steady out of germantown to the split. no accidents reported at this time. just volume delays. outer loop of the beltway cleared of the car fire we reported earlier between 29 and georgia avenue. the lanes are open but the pace is slow around 95. that is a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> julie, thank you very much. if you dream about retirement that fantasy may include spending a leisurely day at the golf course or traveling where you want to see but a lot of people bury their head in the sand when it comes to planning for life after work. here with some of the reasons why and ways to make sure that we are ready when the time comes is mike mussio with f.b. capital partners in bay they

had day. good -- bethesda. welcome back to the show. do you find anybody that says i have the 401. there is going to be medicare, social security check, i'm ready or are we wayser than that now? >> there are some people. what the resources are depends. some feel they are ready before they are financially ready. it's difficult for everyone. the considerations for whether or not you are able to retire are more than financial. a lot of times they are emotional as well. >> we will get into that. you have thigh pretty clear signs that you are ready to retire. could you go over those for us. >> the first and second is related to expenses. so, have a good idea if you are nearing retirement, generally good at knowing what we have in terms of the 401(k) or what social security may be coming to us. we are good in terms of balance type things. but a lot of people nearing retiring and they are kind of

asked the question, what do your expenses look like, they don't know the answer to the question. so, look at your expenses, both discretionary and nondiscretionary. nonis the mortgage payment, food, health care costs and try to separate those two out and get a good feel of what the monthly need is in terms of expenses and make sure that the resources match up with that. then the third thing, further down the road that is more unpleasant to think about but deeply as important is preparing for a long-term care situation. and those are -- again, those are toward the end of retirement but very, very expensive. >> okay. you say like we talked about i want to visit the south of france. these are things we wanted to do after we raised our kids but you need to somehow figure in if your hobby is traveling how you do things like that. how do we come up with a number for that. >> so, you kind of have to work

out into your budget what you -- do homework, research, what those types of trips will cost you. one of the ways to plan or earmark for those big extravagant expenses, on the nondiscretionary, people try to pay the morning off before they retire or pay it down a bit so they have the extra flow of income to do the things they want to do, whether that's travel to france or golf at pebble beach. >> you started off talking about the emotional component. how do you factor that in. >> it's more than lining up income and expenses. we spend 40 to 60 hours a week, whatever it is at work. you better have a good idea of what it is you want to do. a lot of people that quit cold turkey find themselves bored three to six months later. association we are seeing a lot more people phase out over time for retirement and go from five days a week to two or three

days a week. but the main thing is have hobbies or volunteering, those types of things. >> you mention this is to the left of what i would expect of what you would be getting into but you talk about community colleges that offer courses for seniors or just trying to figure that out before you actually take the plunge and retire and go what am i going to do now. >> absolutely. >> i love it. great advice. mike mussio is a certified financial planner. i think about it a lot and i'm trying to be smart about it. >> many of us to. trying to be smart about it. next time you have to tell me how to educate my kids. >> scary thought in some ways but we have to make it less scary. coming up next, falling from 24 miles up and straight into the history books. we will look at a daredevil's record setting sky dive. man: to o some people, social security is just a number.

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historic sky dive. >> adair devil from austria broke several miles when he jumped above the earth. he was carried up in a balloon and jumped from 128,000 feet in an astronaut like suit and the descent lasted over nine minutes. about half of it was all free- fall. the top speed was 834 miles per hour. he landerred safely. look at that. perfectly in new mention i -- he landed safely, look at that, perfectly in mention new mexico -- in new mexico. >> they thought he would go at supersonic speeds. i don't know if he did. it doesn't say here so i don't know. >> we have to rely on the man who did it first. >> well, speaking of that, the first person ever to break the sound barrier, chuck jaeger

celebrated the event by doing it again. that came last night on the 65th anniversary of his original historic flight. this time the 89-year-old yeager sat in the back seat of a fighter jet above the mojave desert. good for him. incredible. space shuttle "endeavour" arrived at its new home in california but the final journey took longer than expected. it moved so slowly through los angeles that it took three days to make the 12-mile trip. they had to cut trees and remove telephone poles and streetlights. thousands were thrilled seeing history in the making. >> pretty cool. >> it is. mr. baumgardner did, indeed, break the sound barrier. the redskins record breaks even and robert griffin, iii breaks records as the redskins

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but he's really creating debt. the facts are clear. obama's four deficits are the four largest in us history. he's adding almost as much debt as all 43 previous presidents -- combined. and over 30 cents of every dollar obama spends is borrowed. much of it from countries like china. he's not just wasting money, he's borrowing it and then wasting it.

we can't afford four more years. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. making headlines, several republicans including lindsay graham that you saw there accusing the white house of covering up details of the attack in libya. he thinks the administration is trying to keep voters from questioning the president's handling of the war on terror. last week vice president biden said the white house unaware of a request for extra security by diplomatic staff in libya. tensions between syria and turkey continue to grow. this morning turkey once again is force -- has forced a plane to land for inspection. this is from armenia. turkish authorities are searching it for possible military equipment.

they will let it continue to alepo if nothing is found. both countries are banning flights from the other country after turkey divert a plane from russia last week. a devastating fire in prince william county where more than 80 storage units went up in flames. this happened at the store all facilities. investigators don't know what caused the fire. tucker barnes joins us once again. a couple of showers out there. >> a couple scattered showers. i think they will be enhanced later this morning. it won't rain all day. it feels like rain but not rain all day. >> good. i like it. >> kids getting off for school -- >> they are fine. >> sunshine most of the rest of the week. >> everything has an asterisk next to it in the weather. 64 in leonardtown. a nice mild start to the day. overnight lows in the mid- to upper-60s.

of course yesterday we had the great day with highs in the 70s keeping things on the warm side. we have the front moving in from the north and west. already a couple of showers during the early morning. a few showers developing up north and west toward frederick. more shower activity up to the west of wind chester. it's not terribly impressive. i'm not sure it will be but we have a decent chance of showers working through over the next several hours. that batch of rain there down in southwest virginia has lifted up and through the region later this morning and through the afternoon. the front is working east. east of us later tonight and by tomorrow, back in the sunshine with cool dry air in place. the nice october weather will continue tomorrow after a bit of a break today. futurecast, lots of clouds around with scattered showers. watch the batch moving through by late morning. it will linger into the afternoon hours. could be thunderstorms south and east of the city. then clearing late this afternoon and tonight. you will notice that cooler and

drier air working in as the winds shifted. they will shift out of the north and west here later this afternoon and tonight behind the front. all right, here is your accuweather seven day. 72 today. lots of sunshine tuesday, wednesday and thursday with highs just about where they should be. upper 60s to about 7 o. could be a few showers. friday may get storminess. question mark about that. stay tuned. >> let's toss it back to allison and tony and sports. tony, nice tie by the way. >> thank you very much. it's a redskins tie. >> a real redskins tie. >> yes. >> how do you know. >> it's from the nfl. i won't show it to you. >> that's what i wanted. eight is enough for the washington redskins. >> robert griffin, iii helped lead the team to the first win at home since last september. >> yeah. >> dave ross joins us with the highlights. >> i thought eight is enough is overrated, the show when you look back in the history, much like the losing streak.

get rid of it. we needed to get rid of that thing. to have robert griffin, iii save the collected fan base of the dmv and did it with a play we will see. the defense played well. the vikings had three straight field goals. rs, enyou would win every game. 17-9 lead in halftime. thanks, zo, we appreciate your con try distributions. he cuts it back, bizarre start. skins 0-3 when the defense scored. >> i was surprised by that. >> 31-12 and you think this game is over. vikings score two straight times. third and six f. they get the

ball back you know they will go here it goes again because there he goes. rg3 with the heels to the field. i love the seven look backs and then the leap into the crowd. the kid has got it. he has swag, style, panache, all those things that make up a great quarterback. those fans didn't want to let him go. the longest leap i have seen at fedex field. you have a special kid here. again, i thought leading up to this week, i'm nervous about him playing coming off a concussion. he will take shots. it's the nfl. that's the way it is. he proved it's the right decision and he was fine. >> he learns -- the amazing thing about him, he is so smart, he learns every week. you see in the next game what he learned from the previous. >> sliding, getting out of bounds. a couple of cheers early in the

game. more good news for the redskins. a couple other breath then in the nfc east, cowboys taking on the ravens yesterday. this is jacoby jones. 108 yards deep, that is as far as you can take it. the kicker has no shot of this. and there he goes. then a little deion sanders dance, allison. >> i see it. >> i like it. >> a little junky. >> cowboys can still pull this out. it's not a wonderful life, bailey. >> nice reference. >> thank you very much. i watched some old movies. >> ray lewis and the boys get a win. how about the eagles. michael vick has become a turnover machine. i think he turned it over again in philadelphia. >> overrated. >> wasn't even looking. what happened to this guy. i can't figure it out.

good news for the redskins. eagles had a big lead. this went to overtime. matthew stafford finds nate burleson there. coming down to a kick, we saw the cowboys miss a kick. jason hanson will not miss. that is good from 45 yards out. the lions come back and shock the eagles 26-23. redskins haven't played the eagles yet or giants. they get the first taste next week when they go up north to take on the giants. redskins one game out of first. cowboys are in last place. >> there you go. >> that's good news. >> i shouldn't say michael vick is overrated. >> i was going to ask you about that. >> he is very good. i can't figure out -- >> i don't think you are inaccurate. the guy turns it over left and right. you got to be able to hold on to the ball in critical situations. >> he is better than what we are seeing. >> in the past he had been. i don't know if he is the same guy we saw two, three years ago. >> dave ross, we will talk to

you again. it's a wonderful life. we are a little more than a month into the school year. so, how are your young ones doing? still ahead, helping kids cope when times get tough. an expert shares ways to make sure your children developing socially and emotionally healthy. healthy. 

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taken 2 took the box office for the second straight week. it ranked in $22.5 million. argo took a close second with just over 20 millionment rounding out the top five sinister, hotel transsylvania and here comes the boom which is the one we saw which is great. >> you liked it. >> i d. henry winkler who you interviewed, great interview and he was great in the movie. >> wonderful. i want to see it this week. could this be the last we hear of michaele salahi. >> hopefully.

>> tmz reports she got engaged over the weekend. there she is with her rocker boyfriend. he proposed by calling up michaele on stage during a benefit concert. she became infamous and her and her former husband attended a white house dinner without the formal invitation. they divorced earlier this year. >> good for them. they seem to be in love. lucky to be alive, a norwegian base jumper got more than he bargained for. take a look. he was doing a gymnastics routine on the edge of a 4,000 cliff. on the first rotation the rig snapped and he plunged over the edge. here it comes. it's coming. not good, not good, not good. not good. amazingly he was not hurt.

he managed to miss hitting the side of the cliff and managed to pull the cord on his parachute. he was wearing a parachute. >> okay. monday morning. coming up next, how to spot the warning signs something is wrong in your child's world when they are at school. >> first, nutrition at the national zoo. good morning, holly. >> good morning, tony. we are talking about nutrition at the zoo. we are not talking about what the animals are eating. we are talking about what visitors can indulge in. dulge

welcome back. it's sometimes easy to forget that little children can be complicate people. even the best parents can miss the signals that kids send when things aren't going well in their world. even several weeks into the school year they can still be struggling.

joining us now is leslie rottenburg senior vice president of media aimed at helping kids develop socially and emotionally. i have a small child. we see these different issues from 0 time to time. >> they need a health guide. are you surprised by that figure. they do know what to do for the most part. they are their child's best teacher. they need strategies for coping with every day. in a young child's life, anything knew can make -- new can make them apprehensive and anxious. parents need strategies and skills they can practice with their kids at home. particularly before they start a formal instructional setting like a classroom which can be

overwhelming. >> so, you bring up a point. one of the things i was going to ask you, how early do you want to start this. when they are 2 or 3 we think everything is hunk can i dory. >> you want stow start when they are 2 or before that. 2 they can communicate. they have words, hopefully vow cab cue barry and -- vocabulary and you want to work with them to name their feelings, understand their feelings and they can manage their feelings. kindergarten teachers say 20% of incoming kids can't manage their feelings and they have a hard time learning in a classroom setting. >>the screen some of the various tips that you recommend for helping your kids to cope. one of the ones is point out positives, teach them to channel anger. tell me about those things. >> these tips come from a brand- new media property that we

introduced in september at the beginning of school. it's tan gel -- daniel tiger's neighborhood. it's based on the lessons of mr. roger's neighborhood. he knew it was the foundation of social learning. he was ahead of his time. now research shows how important it is. emotional development is built into the architect of children's brains. if they don't learn the skills it will impair their learning. this new media property gives kids songs that they can sing about being mad, being disappointed, how to handle all the feelings that they are having and their parents can remember those songs and sing with them at home and how they are related to their own lives and games on the computer to kind of role play those new situations, the things that make you disappointed or angry. >> i would imagine it's important to let kids -- again,

as it says here to channel anger, to let kids -- their feelings are valid. anger, frustration, what have you. i guess as parents we shouldn't say don't feel that way. >> the most important first step is to say this everybody has these feelings. what you are feeling is anger. in daniel tiger's neighborhood, when you feel so mad you want to roar, take a deep breath and count to four. it normalizes the fact that you are feeling that way. instead of having a temper tantrum, learn a strategy and practice a strategy that will make it easier the next time the child has the same feeling. >> when you refer to a media property, we are talking about a show. >> show on your local pbs station. many times during the day you can find it. it's also available online. it's free streaming. if you have access to a tablet or iphone, also great games, free games that kids can play

and kind of experience some of these emotions and see -- kind of test their own reaction to them and practice the strategies and kids love using touch screen devices. >> we will link your web site to our web site at web site so folks can find out more information about all of this including the show. i got to ask you, pbs has been in the news lately, caught up in the debate, the political debate, how will you all -- you got a job to do every day providing programming for children. is that impacting you in any way, distracting to what you do? >> it absolutely impacts us but i have to say what has happened, it has given people an opportunity to speak out about the value of public television in their lives. more than anything, it's children's educational television that we hear people, parents, rallying saying don't take it away. i value the fact that pbs puts my children's best interest first and i trust them to put

this educational media. they are speaking out about it. it's kind of nice for us to see the american people speak out about the value in their own lives. >> very good. thanks for romming in. good to talk -- for coming in. good to talk to you. >> thank you. this morning we are seeing a different side of the national zoo. it's about sustainable food. when it comes to making sure smart choices are on the menu for the 2 million guests that visit each year. there is one man responsible for that. holly morris is with him now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's easy to be the executive chef of a restaurant where a couple hundred people come through each night. think about thousands coming through your astronaut each and everyday -- restaurant each and every day. that is what tom ramsey has to deal with. when it comes with a name like

smithsonian -- >> big deal. >> a big deal. the pressure is on. >> it is. so decks who -- sodexho is new to the zoo everything that we do here has to be sustainable. it goes into our cave identify that we just -- cafe that we just opened. >> along with the american trail. >> that weekend we had a big event. we had a lot of people here like john marriott, people that donate a lot of food -- money for that. >> and people that know food, too, right. >> exactly. >> so, you can say you are at a con session stand but let's take a look at what is on the menu. >> this is our menu. we have lobster roll which is one of the maine lobster that we serve. we have shrimp and maine lobster, number 2 on monterey

bay. good choice. we have atlantic hog. kim chee, alaskan halibut. >> let's cook something. >> we will put together the lobster roll, about four ounces of lobster. we do claw meat which is kind of cheap. >> we like to say affordable, tom. [ laughter ] >> this is simple. >> mix it up. >> lobster meat, sauce, mayonnaise based and put it in the roll that we have. >> as you are doing that, when people come to the zoo, have you seen this transformation that, a, they are happy to see healthier options on the menu. >> i have. >> i go out and talk to the guests to see what they really want. that's the best way to know the

audience. >> sorry. i made you reach further. >> garnishes, too. the zoo is fancy. >> we try to. you polled people and they said -- >> they want healthy food. they don't want to serve or eat basic fried food. what we try to do is give them as many healthy options as possible. >> you know what is good about this, people are enjoying the food better, then chances are they are staying at the zoo longer. >> they definitely are. i don't want to eat that unhealthy food, let's leave they can stay and enjoy the experience. >> they love that they can give their kids options rather than just fried chicken fingers. >> this is the shrimp role. >> the same sauce. >> can you do the could be

salad -- cobb salad quickly. what is sustainable about the brownie. >> they are amazing. nothing sustainable about them. >> they will sustain you. >> exactly. >> it's all balance. if you eat the healthy cobb salad, treat yourself to the brownie. >> exactly. >> this is wonderful. thank you so much. my fox d.c. is our web site. don't forget boo at the zoo in the next weekend. get your tickets now. in the next hour, we have been here three hours and haven't seen an animal yet. that will change. we will check out the new american trail and check in with sea lions. we will have more on fox 5 morning news when we come back. [ female announcer ] it's one of the hardest decisions

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